Title
Saturday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Subject
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Dance music
Folk singers
Old time music
Oral performance
Gospel music
Animal sounds
Storytelling
Banjo music
Ballads
Spiritual music
Choir singing
Gospel (Black)
Spirituals (Songs)
Harmonica music
Violin music
Folk songs, French
French Americans
Songs, French
Singers
Guitarist
Harmonica players
Violinists
Musicians
Description
One reel to reel recording. Dan Smith was a harmonica player from White Plains, NY. Dobbs was from Palatka. McKinney played the violin. The Hallmans were from Greenville, S.C. The Dirt Kickers were a string band from Tallahassee. Dinella and Myers were singer-guitarists from Tampa. Moore was from Green Cove Springs. Hancock was a dulcimer player from Suffolk, Virginia. Joe mark was from Chapel Hill, NC. The LeFevres were from Knoxville, and consisted of Richard, Shirley, Corey, Amy, and Geoffrey. Will McLean (the Black Hat Troubadour) was a singer-songwriter-guitarist from Orlando. Betty Smith was a dulcimer player from Marietta, Georgia. Jones and Quimby sang African American spirituals -- from Brunswick, Georgia, they would later be known as the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Huber was also from Knoxville, Tennessee. Listed in the program as Eugenia Sisinni Jones, the singer-guitarist was later known as Jeanie Fitchen. The Abundant life Singers were from Clearwater, and Malkine was from New York.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Center
Florida Folk Festival
Identifier
a_s1576_t79-018
Title of Work
Florida Place Names (Cont. from T79-17) (Bloodworth)
Blessed Be the Name of the Lord (Dan Smith with Nick Hallman)
Babylon Falling Down (Dan Smith w/Nick Hallman & the Geargia Sea Island Singers)
How Long (Georgia Sea Island Sinegrs: Bessie Jones & Doug Quimby, w/Dan Smith)
Bird and Animal Calls (Tommy Dobbs)
Old Folks at Home (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) (W.B. McKinney)
Amazing Grace
Liza Jane (Nick & Carol Hallman)
Bill Cheatum
Shady Grove
Turkey in the Straw (Dirt Kickers)
Wildwood Flower
Worried Mans Blues
John Hardy (Mary Ann Dinella and Tony Myers)
Trilogy of the opening of the Trans-Pacific Railroad
Remember Me (Michael Moore)
Charles Lindburg
Turkey in the Straw (Elliot Hancock)
Willie Moore
Devilish Mary
Brand New Tennessee Waltz (The Lefevres)
St Anns Reel
Worm Song (Joe Mark)
Hold Back the Waters (Will McLean)
Paynes Prairie (Will McLean w/Don Grooms)
Silver Dagger (Betty Smith)
When I Was a Wee Tot
Bob Beers Tribute
Black is the Color of My True Loves Hair
I am Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord (Georgia Sea Island Singers: Bessie Jones & Doug Quimby)
My God is a Rock in a Weary Land
What a Time
Argument Dance (John Huber)
Wedding Gathering Dance
Oh Cant You Hear That Pretty Little Bird (Jeanie Sisinni-Jones[Fitchen])
Hey Nellie, Nellie
Oh! Suzanna (Abundant Life Singers)
Jesse Taylor
When I Wake Up to Sleep No More
Jesus Got a Hold of My Life and Wont Let Me Go
French Jig (Sonia Malkine)
Brittany Dance
I Think of You
Grasshoppers
Sweet Sunny South (The Boyer Family)
Listen: The Folk Program